Place, Time and Being in Japanese Architecture

Name: Place, Time and Being in Japanese Architecture
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ISBN: 9780419240105

ISBN-10: 0419240101

ISBN-13: 9780419240105

Edition: 2004

Authors: Kevin Nute

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Kevin Nute argues that responsive Japanese design strategies are applicable to other environments & that the ability of these designs to reveal particular place, time & material being could make a significant contribution to human ecology.

Book details

List price: $115.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/17/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 154
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword


Objectives



Built Revelation of Place


Built Marking of Natural Places


Making Space Between the Scared and the Profane


Giving Way to the Lie of the Land


Framing Features in the Surrounding Environment


Autonomous Built Places


Adaptation to Local Climate


The Sacred Column as the Original Place


Revelation of Place in Contemporary Buildings


Physical Integration of Natural Site Features


Framing Features in the Surrounding Environment


Integration with Built Context


Autonomous Built Places


Recollecting the Built History of Places



Build Revelation of Time


Sensitivity of Phenomenal Change


Making Time by Periodically Re-making Space


Change-Responsive Built Space


Time-Measuring Built Spaces


Built Revelation of the Timeless


Revelation of Time in Contemporary Buildings


Passive Revelation of Natural Change


Active Integration of Natural and Human Change



Built Revelation of Being


Built Acknowledgement of Unique Materialities


Dependence as a Source of Identity


Revelation of Being in Contemporary Buildings


Active Expression of Particular Patterns of Human Being


Active Expression of Particular Materialities



Implications


Architecture as a Celebration of Existence


An Architecture of the Individual


Illustration Credits


Bibliography


Index